[bksvol-discuss] Re: when to go from .kes to .rtf

  • From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:56:26 -0400

Dear Pratik,

Amen.  I used K1000 as long as I had the demo and those files which I coverted 
to rtf have been driving me up the wall.  I just arranged for a demo of 
OpenBook and another volunteer is coverting my major kes file to openbook for 
me so I can finish validating it and if it does not take me the whole demo 
period I will try to scan annother book waiting on my shelf but the books I 
had/have in rtf were being worked on in Wordperfect and Wordpad which are my 
main word programs and they make validating a nightmare.  I spend more time 
undoing or saying "no" so saving the changes because of butchering the job than 
I do correcting them.  

Any suggestions would be appreciated as long as they don't involve buying 
programs.  I have 12 wordperfects and a word compatible section in 
wordperfectand wordpad (the easiest so far).  

On another subject: I uploaded The Diary of Lady Murasak    and while I have 
not seen it on any list I would assume it would be listed somewhere for 
validation, which should be easy as I already did that fairly thoroughly.  I 
thought of you and your attic full of books to be  scanned and if that is one 
you can check it off your list.  Genji will also be there as soon as I can get 
Openbook as another volunteer is taking my kes. file and changing it to 
openbook for me so as soon as openbook arrives I will be able to continue my 
validating. (and finally get to read it). It is the Royall Tyler translation.

Amy
OMST 



-- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 12:57 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: when to go from .kes to .rtf


> Bud,
> 
> I prefer to work in the .kes (kesi) file format until either when I'm ready
> to submit it or when I'm confident that I have the book ready to upload for
> completing the validation phase.  The Kesi file format affords certain
> advantages when working directly in Kurzweil 1000.  The first and the
> foremost reason is the speed.  It takes much less time for Kurzweil 1000 to
> open and save Kesi files.  With RTF files, K1K hasto convert each time.
> Kesi files can also save navigation information along with layout
> information.  The user-defined page numbers are only saved in the Kesi
> files.  No other file format has the advantage of saving that data.
> Spelling preferences are also saved by Kesi files (including a list of
> ignored words).  With a book that I download for validation, my first step
> often is to resave it as a Kesi file.  This gives me two advantages: 1)
> speed, as I mentioned above; and 2) it allows me to save the original file,
> for the unknown eventuality that I make some absolutely horrid mistake.  
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Pratik
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bud Schwab
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 12:45 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] when to go from .kes to .rtf
> 
> Hi Gang,
> 
> I'm wondering if there is an advantage or disadvantage to saving the 
> .kes file before or after doing the rank spelling and things like 
> that?  I like to do it while it is still in .kes form so I can find 
> pages easier by number which changes when converted to .trf.  It 
> seems like sometime there are more errors after I have cleaned it up 
> while in .kes.  Maybe I just missed them the first time.Any thoughts 
> from some of you well seasoned scanners?
> Thanks.?
> 
> 
> Bud Schwab
> W 6 Z Y P
> Malibu, California
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